The Kessler community is a group of residential neighborhoods in

Dallas, Texas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County w ...

(United States). Named after George E. Kessler, an American pioneer city planner and landscape architect who developed the

Kessler Plan The Kessler Plan was the City of Dallas’s managed growth plan from 1910 through the 1930s, authored by George Kessler, a city planner. The Plan was intended to create and contain the Dallas Floodway of the Trinity River, and combine the six rail ...

for the city of Dallas, the Kessler area is close to several major commercial districts including

Downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has tradit ...

, Design District and

Bishop Arts District The Bishop Arts District is a shopping and entertainment district in north Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas (USA), near the intersection of Bishop Street and Davis Street. The Bishop Arts District is immediately southwest of Downtown Dallas and south of ...

. Kessler Park, a residential neighborhood first established in the 1920s , is the principal neighborhood of Kessler. Other neighborhoods in the area include

East Kessler Park East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...

, Stevens Park Estates, Kessler Highlands, Kessler Square,

West Kessler West Kessler (which also comprises the "annexed" neighborhood of Stevenswood) is a neighborhood named for George E. Kessler in Kessler, Dallas, Texas (USA The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States ...

, and Kessler Plaza.Old Oak Cliff Conservation League

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